The plethora of unknowns push us toward a game stack that could very well fly under the radar in Week 17 NFL DFS contests.

We're also looking to avoid inclement weather and extreme cold that would border on levels of that Packers-Vikes Saturday night snoozer last week. Panthers-Falcons likely sees a ton of shares, though it's getting the fade here and getting run in our cash strategy.

Buzz around Adam Gase's non-committal response about Jay Cutler finishing Week 17 actually works in our favor. Essentially, he's saying Cutler might get benched mid-game if he's playing terrible, in which case this GPP lineup's probably screwed by the time that even happens. We'll take the depressed ownership at sub-$5K with demonstrated upside from Cutler notching a 5X valuein November and 4X value night in December.

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RB LeSean McCoy, BUF @ MIA ($8,000)

McCoy's averaging 27 touches per game over the past three weeks, making the perfect play to run it back against the Dolphins in our game-stack of a dry, 70-degree winter day in South Florida. With old-standby teams facing usage concerns and other contests seeing performance-affecting levels of cold, we're really leaning into this one.

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RB Kenyan Drake, MIA vs. BUF ($7,200)

Again, with so much uncertainty we like just coming at the Bills-Fins stack. Gase gets a chance to add to the limited sample with his young three-down back. In neutral and positive game script as starter, Drake's been locked in close to a 30-touch workload this season. The Gurleys and Hunts and Bells are off-slate, so we'retaking this where we can find it.

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WR Doug Baldwin, SEA vs. ARI ($6,400)

Patrick Peterson only spends 11 percent of his coverage snaps in the slot while Baldwin runs 76 percent of his routes there, per Pro Football Focus data. Hopefully PP doesn't buck this trend, as Tyrann Mathieu's more middle-of-the-pack in yards-per-coverage snap among primary slot corners.

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WR Jarvis Landry, MIA vs. BUF ($6,200)

Stacking Cutler with his two best offensive weapons while avoiding the Bills' excellent young duo in outside CBs Tre'Davious White and EJ Gaines. Drake probably roasts Bills LBs out of the backfield, none of which rank top-50 PFF coverage grading for off-ball linebackers. Landry primarily gets Leonard Johnson, 24th among 31 qualifying slot CBs in yards per coverage snap.

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WR T.Y. Hilton, IND vs. HOU ($5,900)

Hilton ranked fifth among all WRs in air yards last week despite playing at cold, wet Baltimore. Indoors on the home track against the No. 31 D in yards allowed per pass — a defense Hilton's torched for 290 yards over their past two meetings — and you can count us intrigued at sub-$6K.

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TE Charles Clay, BUF @ MIA ($3,700)

Kelvin Benjamin runs a majority of his routes lined up where Xavien Howard spends most of his coverage snaps. Howard also shadowed Pats primary downfield threat Brandin Cooks earlier this month, and PFF marks him for the fewest fantasy points allowed per route among Fins corners, by a significant margin. That means more work filtering to Clay, who ranks second among TEs in targets since Week 15.

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FLEX Wayne Gallman, NYG vs. WAS ($4,200)

Only Le'Veon Bell has seen more targets at the running back position than Gallman over the past three weeks. It's Week 17 in a lost season, so the rookie's usage increase figures to only continue. Bonus that Eli Manning is expected to play in full as his potential Giants swan song, since he's been the one peppering Gallman with checkdowns.

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#9

D/ST Seahawks at 49ers ($3,400)

Bobby Wagner and KJ Wright showed they're back to form after LB injuries cratered their defense for a couple weeks. Now in a must-win for a chance at the postseason, they get Cards ostensible third-stringer Drew Stanton— who managed a couple turnovers last week despite playing Giants D that everyone's torched.